generations

The language sustained a Jewish diasporan secular culture. Today, that heritage survives in a gritty corner of Queens to be claimed by a new generation.

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972.

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. It was also part of a larger pattern across the country.

During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”

The daughter and granddaughter of a former internee return to the notorious WWI-era detention site for Japanese-Americans.

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago

A look inside America’s first political dynasty.

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.

On "The Vietnam War."

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”

You are not Gen X. You are not a Millennial. Unless you are a Baby Boomer, you are nothing.

People continue to interpret the U.S. Constitution in different ways. One way is an originalist framework that favors the Founding Father's intent in 1787.